#royal air force squadrons

[theworldatwar]

Members of 611 West Lancashire Squadron lend a hand to an RAF pilot by pushing his Spitfire Mark IXB in to position - Biggin Hill, England, 1942

[humanoidhistory]

⬆️ Star Wars influence ⬆️

[tmcphotoblog]

Such glorious photo of HM King George VI visiting No. 617 Squadron in 1943.

[usaac-official]

Ground crew work on an RNZAF SBD-4 on Espiritu Santo, 1944

[carbone14]

Un Gloster Meteor T7 du 613 Squadron RAF à l'aérodrome Ta' Qali – Malte – Juillet 1952

©RuthAS

[opelman]

Blank Buster by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: The first action of my trip to the Mach Loop earlier this month was a pair of Hawks led by this one in 25 squadron markings. Aircraft: Royal Air Force BAE Systems Hawk T.2 ZK026. Location: Bwlch yr Oerddrws, Gwynedd, Wales.

[shinmiyovvi]

Another Codz oc just drop, this time, it's a guy now!

Might make his story soon 👀💖

[paulinedorchester]

Oh, how marvelous!

Map for Polish pilots on how to pronounce the names of towns and cities in the south east of England

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"WOULD GET BACK AT THEM," Toronto Star. October 9, 1942. Page 3. --- Sergs. Sadecky was given little chance of being able ever to walk again after his crash, but is making a good recovery and hopes to return to duty with the famed 'Demon Squadron' of the R.C.A.F. overseas. "I SAW THAT HAPPEN," RELATES TORONTO AIRMAN WHO RAIDED CONVOY." --- "I had a grandstand seat.... It gives you a funny feeling to pick up a a paper weeks after and see a picture of something you saw with your own eyes," Sergt. Tom Sadesky of Toronto and Souris, Man., now recovering from a broken back in Christie Street hospital was wireless operator of the coastal command plane which took part in an epic attack on a German convoy off the Dutch coast illustrated in last week's Star Weekly by the Montague Black drawing reproduced here. It shows the plane which was third behind Sadesky's crashing with its full bomb load on the deck of the freighter. His own plane was hit, and crashed in landing at its home airport.

[jamesliskutin]

Watch "OPERATION OVERLORD: NO 311 CZECHOSLOVAK (COASTAL COMMAND) SQUADRON RAF AT BEAULIEU AIRFIELD" on YouTube

[kaitaiga]

Archie “Frost” Campbell Profile

》[Open Profile] Disclaimer: as I’m still working through the lore of Task Force Dagger, Archie’s biography is still quite bare. Everything else is finished :)

General

Name: Archibald (Archie) Charles Campbell

Callsign: Frost, Dagger-01 (TFD)

Age: 29

Birthday: 16th November, 1995 -  Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

Face Claim: Callum Turner (Specifically - ‘Bucky’ from MOTA’)

Occupation: Fast Jet Pilot (F-35A Lightning II)

Affiliation: Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF - 75th SQN)

Rank: Flight Lieutenant (FLTLT)

Height: 183cm (6ft)

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Aviation

Languages: English, Spanish, German

Appearance

Hair: Dark brown, wavy hair. Short back and sides.

Eye Colour: Grey

Facial Hair: Pencil moustache

Marks: None

Tattoos: None

Family 

Unnamed Mother and Father

Grandfather (Former RAAF 460 SQN)

Pet: Vader (Black cat with white markings on face)

Affiliates

Task Force Dagger

Captain Lachlan Jones (2CDO)

Sergeant Damien Whitlock (2CDO)

Sergeant Daniel Greenhill (2CDO)

Sergeant Joseph “Joey” Hernandez (CCT)

Talullah Jones (ASIS)

Personality

Myers-Briggs Type: ISTJ (Logistician)

Honest and Direct: Archie is a straightforward, no-bullshit kind of person. Will tell his peers how it is without holding back. 

Observer: Not one to talk much unless needed, Archie prefers to observe and analyse his peers or situation.

Archie is a level-headed person. He is calm and is able to keep his cool under difficult situations.

Archie doesn’t let his emotions drive his thought process. He is a logical person who bases his thoughts and opinions based on research and experience, and can become stubborn when he doesn’t particularly agree with something.

Skills

As a fighter pilot, Archie has inherited a range of skills apart from simply flying a fighter jet. There include:

Mental Skills: quick and accurate decisions, situational awareness.

Technical Skills: navigation, avionics, flight system and weapon proficiency.

Social Skills: effective communication, cooperation and working as a team, leadership.

Air Combat Manoeuvring (ACM), Fighter tactics and manoeuvres, etc.

Mission Planning

Maths and Physics, as well as creativity in situations.

Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE)

Archie also likes to partake in electrical work, commonly seen tinkering with devices and studying mechanical/electrical engineering concepts in his spare time.

Behind the Callsign

At a glance, “Frost” derives from his frosty attitude towards his peers around him. Being one to keep to himself majority of the time and only speaking when necessary, his attitude was often perceived as cold to others, even when he didn't mean it.

Though if you were to ask his squadron and ground crew, they’d tell you that they call him “Frost” due to his impressive flying skills, often leaving onlookers and other pilots frozen in awe. Almost like an advantage over opponents.

Biography

Archie was born in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on the 16th of November, 1995. Growing up, Archie would listen to his grandfather’s stories of being a pilot on an Avro Lancaster throughout the majority of WW2. Though a little incoherent at times, Archie still enjoyed them regardless as they shaped his childhood and future to come.

Throughout high school, Archie would spend a lot of time volunteering at an aviation museum alongside his grandfather as a technician assistant, working on maintaining planes on display whilst rambling bits of information of various planes to visitors. Archie would also frequent RAAF base Williamtown, where he would stand just outside the base and watch Super Hornets scream over his head. He wasn’t the type to stand out among his classmates, much preferring to stick his head in a book and soak up as much information as he could on various aviation and engineering topics. He graduated with a top ATAR score of 97.

Thanks to his constant exposure to the Air Force along with his grandfather’s stories, Archie knew he wanted to become a fighter pilot from an early age. In his later years of high school and after, he worked diligently preparing for multiple officer and screening boards during his application process. He managed to score one of five spots out of hundreds of applicants.

Archie then attended the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), where he pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Aviation. He would be a maths tutor to a few of his peers in his spare time, but most commonly Joseph, his newly made friend who he bonded with over their love for Star Wars. 

Upon graduating ADFA, Archie was sent to Perth to begin his initial specialist employment pilot training (ISET), where he spent a year flying the PC-21. He graduated from Number 2 Flying Training School and was recommended by his instructors to pilot the newly introduced and mighty F-35A.

Now part of 75th Squadron, Archie is posted to RAAF base Tindal in the Northern Territory to continue his training, also managing to deploy overseas to various locations such as the US and Japan.

At some point, Archie was approached and recruited into Task Force Dagger on recommendation from Joseph. Working with TFD would show him his first set of real combat outside of simulations and practice exercises. To be continued��

*(Archie would have been 26 years old when the F-35A was first introduced into the 75th SQN, a few years after he graduated ISET (22-23 years old). For story purposes, assume the F-35 arrived earlier.)

Trivia/Preferences 

His favourite music band is Daft Punk. His favourite song from them is ‘Face to Face’. Also likes Coldplay, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, etc.

In his spare time, he also likes to build lego sets and model jets. He’s also a gamer, preferring to play games like League of Legends, Cyberpunk 2077, Helldivers 2, etc.

He likes to wear Rayban Aviators in the colourway black/black or gold/green.

He is a big fan of Star Wars. His favourite movie is ‘A New Hope’ and he also really enjoys ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’. His favourite characters are Wedge Antilles and Commander Wolffe.

He likes to spoil Vader rotten! Buys him all kinds of toys. Even has a Death Star cat house. He has a really big soft spot for Vader which Joseph likes to tease him about, quote: “he is the only one to knock down that icy wall he’s built around himself.”

When Archie chose his aircraft preference, he originally chose the F/A-18F Super Hornet.

If he didn’t become a pilot, he’d become a mechanical engineer. 

After his grandfather passed, Archie carries his ID tags with him as a source of comfort and support. 

Archie was inspired by the character ‘Viper’ from Titanfall 2 and the song “Dodge This”.

[usafphantom2]

Supermarine Spitfire Mark Vs of No 417 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force pictured in loose formation over the Tunisian desert, 1943. The red propeller spinner was a theatre marking for day-flying allied aircraft.

Image: IWM (TR 826)

@I_W_M via X

[spiritundaunted]

The RAF Chapel at Westminster Abbey was unveiled in 1947 at a service attended by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. The royal guests are looking up at the magnificent stained glass window of the chapel.

The Chapel is dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

The exquisite stained glass window includes the badges of 70 squadrons who fought in the Battle, together with the furled flags of New Zealand, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Belgium, and the United States of America.

Left, the Chapel stained glass window. Right, detail of the Polish squadron badge.

[carbone14]

Le pilote de chasse tchécoslovaque Josef František du 303 Squadron RAF posant devant son Hurricane – Bataille d'Angleterre – Septembre 1940

Josef František est un pilote tchécoslovaque qui a combattu dans les armées de l'air polonaises, françaises et anglaises. Il est le pilote non anglais de la RAF ayant obtenu le plus grand nombre de victoires pendant la bataille d'Angleterre (17 victoires en septembre) avant de se crasher le 8 octobre 1940.

[opelman]

Vampire by Treflyn Lloyd-Roberts Via Flickr: Painted into RCAF colours to commemorate the air arm's centenary, the Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron's Vampire departs from Fairford having taken part in the static display at the 2024 Royal International Air Tattoo. Aircraft: de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.52 LN-DHY/062/AL in Royal Canadian Air Force livery. Location: RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire, UK.